true love
See also: truelove
English
Noun
true love (countable and uncountable, plural true loves)
- (uncountable) The form of romantic affection that is considered pure and wholly positive, not just based on feelings of lust and sex.
- Some believe that true love doesn't exist.
- (countable) The unique individual for whom one feels such affection.
- He was my one true love.
- 1780, unknown author, Twelve Days of Christmas
- On the first day of Christmas, my true love sent to me
A partridge in a pear tree
- On the first day of Christmas, my true love sent to me
- 1965, “Colours”, performed by Donovan:
- Yellow is the colour of my true love's hair,
In the morning, when we rise.
- (countable) A thing for which an individual feels an intense love.
- Cinematography is my only true love.
- (uncountable) The situation in which a couple is perfectly compatible and there is no better relationship, as set by a greater force such as God or fate.
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:true love.
Derived terms
- true-love-knot
- the course of true love never did run smooth
Translations
romantic affection
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individual
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thing
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Anagrams
- revolute